hi my name is rebecca from invid and in
today's lesson we're going to learn how
to answer questions in english
with a short answer okay now of course
when somebody asks you something you can
always just answer yes or no
but usually in english it's not polite
to only say yes or no we usually say a
little bit more
just to sound more polite and to make it
seem a little bit more like a sentence
rather than just a grunt
a grunt is when we just
say something quickly all right so you
don't want to do that so let's look at
how we can answer and also how to answer
correctly in terms of the grammar all
right so i've written some examples on
the board in the present tense in the
past tense and also with the present
perfect all right
so let's look at this question
do you play tennis right
so the rule when we want to ask answer
the question
is
we take the auxiliary which in this case
is do auxiliary is a word that's added
to make it a question in this case all
right
so do
you play tennis right when you ask the
question you don't usually just say you
play tennis
you can't say that but it's very
informal so usually we say do you play
tennis
so the answer is really easy
you can just say yes i do
so what are we doing we're taking the
auxiliary two and we're adding it to the
answer
so do you play tennis yes i do
or
no i don't correct
the mistake that students make is if you
ask them do you play tennis they might
say yes i play now that would be wrong
in english it's not right to say that
what you should say is yes i do or no i
don't if the question started with do
so if somebody asks you
i'm asking you for example do you speak
french
so what would your answer be
hopefully you said either
yes i do or no i don't
if i ask you do you like pizza you could
say
what
yes i do
or no i don't all right
let's look at the past tense same rule
applies in the past tense except here
the auxiliary changed because it's the
past tense simple past tense we're using
the word did correct
did you finish your homework
so same thing right
yes i did
no i didn't
did you write to mary
yes i did
or
no i didn't
did you pass the exam
hopefully your answer is yes i did
or
no i didn't
let's look now at the present perfect
tense same rule applies you're going to
do exactly the same thing
except here we're starting with have
right
have you seen that movie
so you could answer
yes i have or
no i haven't
you see again have
comes into the answer yes i have
no i haven't right if you ask
someone have you read that book
you could say
yes i have
or
no i haven't
have you visited thailand
yes i have
or no i haven't okay
so you can see it this way how to make
the short answers sound polite and also
correct all right if you'd like some
more practice with this or any other
aspect of english we have many such
videos on our website which is
www.invid.com
please feel free to go there there are
lots of other videos and there's also
lots of quizzes on this as well as on
many other aspects of english alright so
thanks for watching and good luck with
your english bye for now
you